News & Events

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring. This week, I'm at JAX in San Francisco. We're having a good time, and happily answering questions from community members. As usual, though, we've got a lot to cover, so let's get on with the show.

1. Martin Lippert has announced the latest versions of SpringSource Tool Suite and the Groovy and Grails Tool Suites.
2. Chris Beams has announced that Spring 3.1.2 has been released!
3. Rob Winch has announced that Spring Security 3.1.1 has been released!
4. Costin Leau has announced that Spring GemFire 1.1.2 has been released!
5. The Tech Annotation page has a great post on using some of Spring's remoting technologies, RMI and HTTP invoker, to expose objects to remote clients.
6. Chris Haddad has put together a nice article on using Spring on Cloud Foundry.
7. The Enterprise Development Ideas blog has a nice article on using Spring 3.1 to build RESTful services that support JSON and XML.
8. Did you guys miss JAX, in San Francisco, this week? The talks that Chris Richardson and I have, and will, give are going to be online next week, but this week you should check out the presentation on using Spring MVC and Backbone.js together by Sebastiano Armeli-Battana, a community member who also spoke this week. Nice job, Sebastiano! Also: be sure to check out the code!
9. Would you like a sneak peak at how a master structures his application? Let Gordon Dickens explain how he configures his application.
10. The Code Tips and Tricks blog has a nice post on using Spring MVC without using the default Spring component scanning in place.
11. This VMware knowledge base article has a rather interesting tip that shows how to ask the Spring ApplicationContext which configuration resources are being used.
12. This blog has a great look at customizing formatting for Spring MVC with the use of a custom formatter.
13. Peng Fei Xu has a quick introduction to using Spring's Java configuration.
14. This blog has a nice introduction to handling Forms with Spring 3 MVC
15. The Java Code Geeks has a nice blog introducing how Spring's custom namespace definitions work.
16. The Apache Tomcat team has announced the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 7.0.29.
    • The new release adds support for a default error pages
    • The servlet version defined in web.xml no longer determines if Tomcat scans for annotations when the web application starts. This is now solely controlled by metadata-complete element.
    • On web application start, JARs are now always scanned for ServletContainerInitializers regardless of the setting of metadata-complete
17. This is not a Spring-specific post, but instead pertains to AspectJ. AspectJ, of course, is very well supported as part of Spring's AOP story. In this blog, Thibault Delor introduces how to introduce a useful toString method for all of your classes.